I’m glad to announce that the recent round of recruitment for the ChEBI team has been completed. We have two new colleagues, Steve Turner, our new Chemistry Curator, and Adriano Dekker, our new Software Engineer. Both will work with us to make ChEBI fit for the inclusion of more then 500.000 new ChEBI entries. Those […]
Congratulations to the ChEBI team for publishing ChEBI version 57. ChEBI Release 57 now contains links to NMRShiftDB. Search ChEBI for “caffeine” PuTTY quit command , for example, and you find the link to the carbon NMR spectrum of caffeine on the “automatic XREFs” page of ChEBI, in the “Small Molecules” section. ChEBI now contains […]
We received our official award letter from BBSRC Tools and Resources Fund today for the ChEBI ontology development grant. Needless to say, we are thrilled. We are now going to work together with Michael Ashburner’s group at the University of Cambridge to align ChEBI with other OBO Foundry ontologies by adoption of the Basic Formal […]
With ChEBI release 56 behind us, I thought I’d share some insight into how ChEBI is created and what we do to prepare a release. In the last years, the ChEBI team on average consisted of two software engineers maintaining and improving the software and two to three curators doing the data entry and curation. […]
We are pleased to announce release 56 of our database of Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI). SDF files are now available with ChEBI Release 56. They can be exported via the Downloads section or the search results page. We also have automatically generated links from IntEnz (www.ebi.ac.uk/intenz) and Rhea (www.ebi.ac.uk/rhea). This release contains 17842 […]